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My name is Kaye and I am 58 years old. Unbelievably to me, at my age, I have now just embarked upon my third career - as a History Education Consultant! I love to cross stitch and quilt, especially with my kittens, Furio and Milo "helping" me. I also love to read, I have a passion for history and I have been cooking since I was about 12 - move over Junior Masterchef! So, this blog, which started out as a cross stitch blog sometimes morphs into a reading journal or a history lesson (sorry, I used to be a secondary teacher before I became a publisher and now a consultant) or a post about my cooking mojo. Whatever it is, this blog is alway about me, my family and my life here in Eaglemont, Victoria. I have been happily married for over 30 years to the most wonderful man and we are blessed with three beautiful grown up children.

The floss toss looks fantastic! Annie's suggestion is a very good one - I was going to say do maybe two rows of five stitches waaaaaay at the edge of your fabric so you can see how the threads really look on that cool fabric. But I agree with you that it will likely look amazing - go ahead, be brave, be bold!

I just stitched this piece and I changed the linen to a light turquoise that I had in my stash... I also changed the color of the house and the ladies dress to yellow as that is my favorite color and I think it turned out nicely... you can see it here...

Ooh seems like I'm going to go against all your previous advices!I love the fabric colour, but I thing it will better to use with very light colours or black silhouette.A bit worried the brown & red ish colours won't show up as nicely.That's just me! I won't be offended if you decide to ignore my ramblings :) Just have fun & stitch the way you feel is best for you.